Book Review: Ekalavya Speaks by Sanjukta Dasgupta
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Poet and Critic Gopal Lahiri reviews Ekalavya Speaks by Sanjukta Dasgupta (Published by Penprints Publishers, 2023) calling it aesthetics of resistance.
- ISBN:978-81-966577-9-6
- Pp-80
- INR-350/-
Poetry is a deep inner calling, from it comes worship, the consciousness, and the aesthetics of resistance against inequality. In every action, poetry remains an immense presence in the life. In ‘Ekalavya Speaks,’ the ninth collection of English poems by Sanjukta Dasgupta, the poet deconstructs, demystifies the mythological characters, and raises many questions about the discrimination and marginalisation of the ‘Others’ community. Be it Dalit, Transgender, downtrodden, people with different sexual orientations, and the like. Her poems have an anguished power, a rebellious lexical energy, and a freewheeling emotionalism. Sympathy for the suffering of others is a current that runs through all this book.
